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you can't get a smaller/bigger slice this way...

Awww, come on. The best part of eating pie is holding the knife over the pie, pivoting from the center, and repeating "here? here? here?"!
Then, of course, when your guest decides on the size, creating a diversion while you cut the slice just a little bit bigger.
I was pretty sure the world would explode if this sacred ritual were tampered with...

I don't need more complexity in cooking. There's little time enough. Also, how do you eat it? I think it would be harder to either a) eat out of these than eating pie off a plate or b) harder to get this out of the pan to eat on the plate. I won't even comment on the dishwashing aspect.

I'm sure there's some benefit, but I'm not seeing it.

I feel this is one of these things that look adorable but it is not practical. It seems that we must eat inside the pan because it must be hard to remove it without breaking the hot potpie. Then, I will be afraid to burn myself. Extra steps are required to eat a warmed fruit pie with ice cream.

One suitable usage can be for singles or couples for which a regular pie is simply too large. You can prep several pieces, freeze them and cook them on a need basis.

I can see it being used for other stuff but not pie! It's annoying enough to get the dough into a big round plate, can you imagine the time it would take to get it just right... ack.

Big no no.

Imagine washing the things.... yeah, they are dishwasher safe, but I don t care what the advertisement says, you need elbow grease to get those things clean

If I got those as a gift, I would use them - but not for pizza and pies. To serve olives, crackers, peanuts, on cocktail parties :-)

The clean-up aslect alone makes me shudder.

I can kind of see the appeal of these -- for things other than pie, though. Wouldn't an array of snacks look cute with six different dishes of them set up in a circle?

Personally, I like making pies just to share with as many people as possible...and if I wanted to make a mini pie for one I would break out my oven-proof ramekins/pudding cups instead of having to buy a special dish.

Attack of the unitaskers! Not to mention too much work. I can't imagine filling those tight corners with pie crust. At least ramekins have a wide variety of uses.

Ridiculous! More work for the pie maker. I do love King Arthur flours, but their catalog is full of one-use gadgets. Sure, they look pretty on the page, but they're the sorts of things that will just clog up the cupboards.

And darn it, now I want pie.

^bangbangpow---too funny!

I agree these look very cute, but are very impractical.

But it wouldn't be pie in a ramekin. Apple pie is my arch nemesis due to wetness. The last one I made turned out fine by my standards but my dad insisted that the crust was not done enough. Next time I will give him his own mini slice to bake to whatever level of dryness he wants. Hopefully you can buy just one for the backseat cook in the family.

Besides the filling and crust, the real joy of pie is "straightening out the edges"--that is, ensuring that my world is safe from the threat of uneven edges of pie. On that point alone, I must say NOT when queried about the individual pie slice pan's level of hotness.

I would never use these to bake, but I would love something like this for storage/transit. I swear I once saw pie-slice-shaped tupperware or the like, thought it useless, and have since changed my mind and can't find it. Anybody have/seen something like that?

My mom had one of those pie slice savers from Tupperware, but I think she gave it away last summer when we remodeled her kitchen.